Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 80 kg explained

The middleweight class was a judo event held as part of the Judo at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. The weight class was the second-lightest contested, and allowed judokas of up to eighty kilograms. The competition was held on Wednesday, October 21, 1964.^[1]

Twenty-five judokas from twenty nations competed.

Medalists

Results

Elimination round

The twenty-five competitors were divided into seven pools of three and one group of four. Each pool played a round-robin tournament, with the winner of the pool advancing to the quarterfinals.

Pool A

width=20	Place	width=240	Judoka	width=60	Score	width=50	Qual.
1		width=60	2–0	QQ
2		1–1
3		0–2

Pool B

width=20	Place	width=240	Judoka	width=60	Score	width=50	Qual.
1		2–0	QQ
2		1–1
3		0–2

Pool C

width=20	Place	width=240	Judoka	width=60	Score	width=50	Qual.
1		2–0	QQ
2		1–1
3		0–2

Pool D

width=20	Place	width=240	Judoka	width=60	Score	width=50	Qual.
1		2–0	QQ
2		1–1
3		0–2

Pool E

width=20	Place	width=240	Judoka	width=60	Score	width=50	Qual.
1		3–0	QQ
2		2–1
3		1–2
4		0–3

Pool F

width=20	Place	width=240	Judoka	width=60	Score	width=50	Qual.
1		2–0	QQ
2		1–1
3		0–2

Pool G

width=20	Place	width=240	Judoka	width=60	Score	width=50	Qual.
1		2–0	QQ
2		1–1
3		0–2

Pool H

width=20	Place	width=240	Judoka	width=60	Score	width=50	Qual.
1		2–0	QQ
2		1–1
3		0–2

Knockout rounds

The remaining eight judokas competed in a single elimination bracket. Losers in the quarterfinals were placed 5–8 while both losers in the semifinals won bronze medals.

Sources

• Book: Tokyo Organizing Committee . The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2 . 1964 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Judo at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Middleweight . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418132527/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/JUD/mens-middleweight.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 7 May 2018 . Sports Reference.